Job Purpose:
• To provide HR guidance and support to the Veetee management in order to drive business performance
• To assist in the development of HR best practice in line with business and department goals and objectives
Key Tasks/Responsibilities:

Culture
• Recommending innovative practices to develop the culture and engage the workforce
• Organisational change activities
• Coaching and developing managers in all aspects of people management
• Supporting and advising senior management and managers on disciplinary, grievance and restructuring processes
• The arrangement and attendance of meetings up to and including dismissal and appeals
• To monitor and advise managers on attendance management and case management of long term sickness absence
• To advise on performance improvement issues
• To research and keep up to date with current and new legislation, making recommendations and propose new policies to ensure compliance
• Drive diversity in all aspects of people management
• Drive a high performance culture, ensuring that people management processes are completed to drive employee engagement

Compensation and Reward Management
• Managing all employee benefits including private medical insurance, pension scheme, child care vouchers, life cover scheme, eye care vouchers
• Ensure integrity of the Veetee Role Framework
• Work with the Group Finance Director to develop reward packages designed to retain and attract key talent and aligned to the Veetee Role Framework
• Sign off for payroll, ensuring that records are accurate
• Work closely with payroll and managers to ensure that people are paid accurately first time
• Ensure the reward offering is understood by employees

Learning & Development
• Ensuring that all training records are accurate and up to date
• Ensuring that development plans are in place
• Identify opportunities for developments
• Support employee development and training plans
Resourcing
• To coach and develop managers in all aspects of recruitment
• Support managers in the recruitment of staff; the writing of recruitment adverts; screening of applicants and interviewing of all candidates
• Coordinating inductions for all new starters
• Develop strong relationships with agencies
• Manage relationships with temporary agencies and ensuring accurate records and completion of timesheets
• Ensuring that quarterly audits of temporary staff providers are carried out to comply with the GLA and ethical trading
• Proactive manpower planning, reporting to the business on a quarterly basis
• Control and monitoring of agencies

Team Management
• To manage two members of support staff
• To set and agree annual objectives with each individual and conduct regular 1-2-1’s with them and provide constructive feedback, coaching and support

General Business Support Activities
• Ensuring audit records for suppliers and customers, ETI records are up to date
• To provide professional knowledge, advice and support to the management team
• Manage the time and attendance system for all employees and train new employees and managers in the usage of the system
• Reporting of management information including employee turnover, absence and manning levels and preparation of monthly reports
• Managing the cleaning and vending machine contracts and ensuring regular contact with these suppliers and dealing with issues
• To maintain accurate personnel records, both manual and computerised, ensuring total security and confidentiality
• To prepare and provide timely and accurate correspondence
Person Specification:

Experience:
• Previous experience within a generalist HR management role preferably within a manufacturing environment
• Experience of managing a team
• A degree within a business related subject
• CIPD qualified

Knowledge:
• An excellent working knowledge of employment law

Skills:
• Excellent communication skills both written and face to face and the ability to communicate with people at all levels within the organisation
• The ability to work on own initiative and a self-starter